Richard Feynman's centennial celebration

Friday 30 Nov 2018, 10:00 → 17:10 Europe/Zurich

Auditorium A100 (Uni Geneva)

Hans Peter Beck (Universitaet Bern (CH)), Jan Lacki (University of Geneva)

Symposium on the centennial of Richard P. Feynman.

Organized jointly by the Swiss Physical Society and the History and Philosophy of Science Unit of the University of Geneva. The celebration, gathering physicists and historians of modern physics, intends to review Richard Feynman’s contributions to 20th century physics in a morning session and aims at presenting some examples of contemporary research that has followed upon his pioneering work in the afternoon session of the celebration event.

Feynman centennial event.pdf

10:00 → 10:20 Welcome

10:20 → 11:10 The magic of Feynman’s QED

Speaker: Prof. Olivier Darrigol (CNRS/Université Denis Diderot)

11:10 → 12:00 Putting Feynman’s style into context

Speaker: Adrian Wüthrich (Technical University Berlin)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:20 Feynman diagrams and modern collider physics

Speaker: Charalampos Anastasiou (ETH Zurich)

14:20 → 15:10 Feynman’s strong interaction side

Speaker: Gabriele Veneziano

15:10 → 16:00 Quantum Simulation: from Feynman's Vision to Today's Reality and into the Future

Speaker: Uwe-Jens Wiese (Bern University)

16:00 → 16:20 Coffee

16:20 → 17:00 Roundtable Discussion